Twenty-year-old Lilly DesRoberts talks about how her high school boyfriend robbed her of college life in the Teen Dating Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month episode of…
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Maine Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month
Ocean on Tap
To celebrate our first year, we will be holding an Ocean Trivia Night on Thursday, Feb. 20, starting at 6 p.m. at Footbridge Brewery. The trivia will cover a variety of topics centered on the…
Hearty Roots is thrilled to announce the recent addition of Carol Morrison to their office team. Carol joins the youth…
The Edgecomb Community Church will be holding a fundraising event in the form of a sub sale Friday, Feb. 7. Church members will be taking orders for this winter event, which has become an…
It’s time to stock up for your spring and summer bird-feeding to get birds through the nesting season when they need lots of energy. Mid-Coast Audubon will…
DaPonte String Quartet
The renowned DaPonte String Quartet (DSQ) is thrilled to announce a series of performances featuring the exquisite works of Franz Joseph Haydn and Erich Wolfgang Korngold from Feb. 14 to March 1…
Jinna Han was so caring that, when a fellow skater was struggling with injury at an event, Han was consoling her and Han’s coach eventually had to tell her it was “time to get selfish” and focus…
“Writing the Weather” is the focus of a creative nature writing workshop led by writer and Maine Master Naturalist Andrea Lani on Saturday, Feb. 15, from 10 a.m. to noon at Hidden Valley…
Come explore with us at this fun and engaging workshop dedicated to right hand ukelele technique. The Feb. 22 session will cover essential picking patterns and apply them to actual songs from…
Waldo Theatre
Sonic Alchemy with gongs and didgeridoos is coming to The Waldo on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 4 p.m.
Hear instrument maker and sound worker Jim Doble, on a large array of gongs; sound worker and…
Discover the fascinating hobby of beekeeping! Join us for a seven-week interactive, in person course, presented by experienced beekeepers from the Knox-Lincoln…
Stalking. According to stalkingawareness.org, in the U.S. alone, 6-7.5 million people — one in three women and one in six men — experience stalking each year; 50% say…
The work of monitoring and maintaining public trails requires more than just the eyes and time of a land trust’s staff; with over 100 miles of trails, there aren’t enough hours in the day for…
“Vernal Pools” will be the topic of the Garden Club of Wiscasset’s next program on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 1 p.m. in Fellowship Hall of the Congregational Church, 28 High St. in Wiscasset.
The…
St. Philip’s Help Yourself Shelf Food Pantry (HYS) at 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset, is delighted to report it is the February recipient of funds generated by the…
Wiscasset residents Brianna Colson, Emily Gilliam and Grace Greene have been named to the dean's list for the 2024 fall semester at the University of New England. Dean's list students have…
The Center for Teaching and Learning recently welcomed Chewonki’s Traveling Natural History Program and their “Fins and Flippers” program. The students learned about…
Mrs. Carole Drury has transformed music education into a profound art of nurturing young souls through melody and harmony. Her remarkable journey from the world of banking to becoming a beloved…
In Clinton Pike's eighth grade class, place-based learning comes alive through immersive outdoor education that connects students directly with their local environment. By engaging in hands-on…
Finding Our Voices invites Maine women to uplift and empower each other with an online book club discussion of "The Bonobo Sisterhood" with the author Diane L. Rosenfeld, and a statewide cold…
This is "really preliminary," Wiscasset Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kim Andersson said Jan. 21 at the school committee's first budget workshop. But so far, she said, would-be costs for 2025-26…
Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust invites all to celebrate…
When the weather is milder for going outside after time in a pool, Wiscasset's Lyle Means plans to start exercising in Wiscasset Community Center's. Thanks to an effort his daughter Julee Ketelhut…
Heartwood’s annual winter middle school production will hit the stage Jan. 30, as an enthusiastic group of 4th-8th grade Midcoast youths present an adaptation of “Jack and the Beanstalk.” This…
Discover the fascinating hobby of beekeeping! Join us for a seven-week interactive, in-person course, presented by experienced beekeepers from the Knox-Lincoln…
Wiscasset school committee
Amid some of their and others' concerns, Wiscasset school committee members Jan. 14 agreed to apply to the state to serve children younger than the schools' youngest students. The unanimous vote…
Scott Powers, who grew up on Barters Island, Boothbay and is a 1991 graduate of Boothbay Region High School, lives in the Pasadena, California area and sent this report of the fires still…
Join Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust for an online program on Wednesday, Jan. 29 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. with Ben Goldfarb, author of "Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our…
Join Jessie Batchelder from Manomet Conservation Sciences in a conversation about blue crabs and their future in Maine water, on Thursday, Jan. 23 from 6 to 7 p.m.
As the Gulf of…
The following students in the readership area were named to the fall 2024 president’s list at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire: Rebecca Short of Westport Island,…
Fourteen new courses will start in February through Midcoast Senior College, a local nonprofit that brings learning opportunities to seniors aged 50 years or older. The new courses are six to…
Veggies to Table is thrilled to announce that it has successfully met and exceeded its end-of-year fundraising goal, raising $149,544 to support its mission to grow top-quality organic produce…
Le Café Français, a French conversation group, resumes its lively in-person meetings at the Edgecomb Community Church located at the intersection of Eddy and Cross…
Please join us for our second iteration of Vs.: A Poetry Competition in 2 parts. The competition will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 21 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Skidompha…
Ocean On Tap
The next Ocean on Tap, an informal, ocean-centric speaker series organized by researchers from Bigelow Laboratory, will take place on Thursday, Jan. 23 from 6 to 7 p.m. at Footbridge Brewery, 25…
Lincoln Theater
Lincoln Theater is pleased to present “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found” a compelling documentary that delves into the life and groundbreaking work of South African photojournalist Ernest Cole…
For Damariscotta artist Peter Bruun, surviving the pain of losing his 24-year-old daughter to a heroin overdose started with breaking taboos.
“When Elisif was struggling it was hard to…
Thursday, Jan. 23
Be at the Footbridge Brewery, 25 Granary Way, Boothbay Harbor from 6-7 p.m. Speaker: Brenda Hamilton - FEMA Storm Outreach & Recovery Coordinator for Maine Coast…
Midcoast Conservancy will offer a full moon hike (or snowshoe, if there is snow on the ground) at Hidden Valley Nature Center in Jefferson on Tuesday, Jan. 14 from 5:30…
As announced at wiscassetme.myrec.com, Winterfest 2025, to benefit the Cooper DiPerri Scholarship Fund, is Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. The auction and raffles are open starting Jan. 24.
Jan. 24…
Beppe Gambetta is a guitarist, vocalist, composer and researcher and from Genoa, Italy whose concerts bring European and American Roots together. He’s recorded and worked…
To encourage students in Maine who are exploring careers in journalism, the Maine Press Association each year awards MPA scholarships to current…
